New Blog Stuff and Meyer Lemon Cranberry Scones Recipe

Before we get to these magnificent meyer lemon cranberry scones recipe, there’s some new blog updates that we want to share.

If you haven’t noticed already, we’ve added some new features to our blog! We’ve always written about recipes, our garden, photography and our travels. But lately, we’ve been wanting to write more about each topic and more often.

From so many reader requests and email questions pertaining to different topics, we thought it was time to finally have separate sections to the blog so that we can focus on each particular topic in more depth. The best way to write more often about each topic and not bore anyone when we write too much about each topic is to separate our content. Each of the three sections will have their own RSS feed, so that everyone can subscribe just to the topic they are interested in. The three different feeds are the following:

You asked for it, so we’re giving it to you by adding a photography and gardening section!

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These experts will be guest posting, as well and provide some very valuable insight, suggestions, and tutorials from their fields of expertise in photography or gardening.

We’re really super duper exited to have these amazing folks share their knowledge with us all!

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Meyer Lemon and Cranberry Scones

Back to the scones! The citrus trees in our backyard have been exploding and it’s certainly been a wonderful year for us. The meyer lemons are starting to be perfect for picking and their fragrance is so bright and inviting. This morning we made a batch of scones from the garden meyer lemons and this is a treat that everyone should experience in the morning. Scones are actually really easy to make in the morning. To make things even quicker in the morning, you can premix the dry ingredients together in a bowl and then finish everything else in the morning. Fresh, hot scones can’t be beat and after making this batch, you’ll probably never head out to your morning coffee stop for scones again.

Tips for killer, flakey scones:

Use cold ingredients. Your butter has to be cold, but it helps if everything else is too.

Work quick and don’t over mix. The dough will be kind dry and rough when mixed. If you lolli-gag in the process the butter will start to get to warm, and you’ll lose some of the flakiness.

If you want to be popular at work, try baking a fresh batch of these in the morning and taking them to work. Trust us, you will be loved and your popularity ranking will shoot sky high! Who knows? you just might get that raise that you deserve and all it took was a batch of freshly baked meyer lemon cranberry scones!

lemon glaze

Directions:

Cut butter into pea sized chunks. Add to dry ingredients and pinch the butter with the dry ingredients until everything is combined into a crumbly mixture.

Beat the egg and egg yolk in a small bowl. Add cream and mix to combine.

Add cream mix to flour mix just until it all comes together. To mix the last of the flour, place the dough on work surface, and the the palm of your hand, push small egg sized chunks down and away from you (see picture above recipe). Do this just until flour is incorporated. Add the dried cranberries. Dough should still be fairly rough.

Roughly form dough into 2 1/2" x 1" discs. Place on the sheet pan and bake in the middle of the oven for about 20 minutes or until pale golden.

While scones bake, make lemon glaze. Combine lemon juice and 1/4 c of sugar in a small sauce pan. Heat until sugar is dissolved. Set aside to cool.

After scones are done baking, remove from oven and brush with lemon glaze.

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I just made these and they’re incredible! I had three Meyer lemons in the fridge and needed to use them up so I used all three, I don’t think it’s overwhelmingly lemony. Lots more on the tree already so I’m sure I’ll be making it again!

My butter came out of the fridge but it was already too warm by the time I cut it up. Next time I’ll try frozen butter. This was the first time I made scones from scratch and was relatively surprised at how painless it was. I’m curious how long they’ll keep, and if they freeze well?

Just to make the butter easier to cut, try cutting it first, then putting it in the freezer for 10-15 minutes and see how that works for you.
As far as freezing the scones and how long they keep, they are best eaten the day of or maybe the next day after baking, but you can usually freeze the formed scones prior to baking, then when you want to bake them, let the scones sit out for about 20 minutes then bake as usual. We haven’t done that with this recipe yet, but with several other recipes it has worked great.
Hope that helps. So glad you loved them!
T

I made these last night — they are the best scones I’ve ever made! I plan on making them again, but also on using the base scone recipe for other variations. I think it would be great plain and used as shortcake, too. Thanks so much!

just arrived at my holiday home on a greek island to find my lemon tree ladened with big juicy fruits. Searched the web for recipes and choose yours, the scones are fab so I’m having a coffee morning tomorrow for all my friends and guess what they’re having…..

Sometimes the most delicious foods are the least beautiful ones! Consider omlettes: when they get “messed up” and consequently look like a disorganized pile of egg, cheese, and sauteed veggies, they somehow always taste better! Judging by the appearance of these scones, they’re other worldly!

That’s awesome guys, congrats on the new sections! There’s nothing better than a well made scone for breakfast and those look amazing! My mom just sent me some Meyer Lemons from the garden, so I’m having scones for brunch on Saturday:-)

Meyer lemons are a delicacy here in the Northeast. Thank goodness for Trader Joe’s, which sells them at reasonable prices in season. We always make some Meyer lemon curd, and now we’ll try these scones, too.

Excellent updates! I am always in awe of what you two are able to accomplish with this blog. The information you share is always so helpful and appreciated! Your scones look amazing, too. I just made citrus biscotti and I wish I could have some meyer lemon to add…I’ll just have to imagine the deliciousness. Gorgeous photos! The first one feels so clean, fresh and bright- I just love it.

I fear our Eureka lemon tree was damaged recently by an unexpected frost here in No. Cal. *sigh* But I’m hopeful. I am considering making these up to the point of forming the dough into scones, then flash-freezing them so in the morning, I can just pull out a few to bake. Will let you know if they turn out that way!

Congratulations on the expanded blog sections! I can’t wait to follow along there as well. The scones look marvelous. I can almost smell the lemons through my screen, mmmm, one of my favorite smells on earth.

Sounds wonderful!!! I’m on my way to Southern CA tomorrow…so will make these for my kids. They have a lemon tree in the yard. I’m so jealous! It’s like 5 degrees here right now. Can’t wait to get to your part of the world!